Erection date: 1973
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 - 1930, creator of Sherlock Holmes lived here, 1891 - 1894.
Greater London Council
SE25, Tennison Road, 12
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - SE25
Originally named Sheridan Hope, then Sherringford Holmes and finally Sherlock...
Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer o...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - SE25
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could...
In our photo the railing replacement plaque can just be seen on the low wall to the left of the steps. The Memorial Garden plaque is on t...
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the north bank of the Thames.
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing these photos. The Daily Mail reported that in the 1964 Mary Poppins film this "... hou...
Andreas Kalvos, 1792 - 1869, Greek poet and patriot lived here. English Heritage
The church, dating back to the 9th century, was destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. The parsonage survived until at least 1762.
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